criblage
\kʁi.blaʒ\
The verdict
“criblage” is uncommon French (frequency #84,672 among 8,609 “C” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,672
- frequency rank, French
- 8,609
- “C” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de passer au crible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-criblage · criblage · French
criblage · rank #84,672 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,672
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 8,609
- PHOTO-FINISH cringe
Nearest frequency peer: cringe (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « criblage »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- crafts
crafts
15,332 corpus weight
- crap
crap
15,331 corpus weight
- criblage
criblage
15,329 corpus weight
- cringe
cringe
15,328 corpus weight
- crotale
crotale
15,325 corpus weight
- Crotone
Crotone
15,324 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « criblage » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | criblage |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \kʁi.blaʒ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,672 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « criblage » en français
Rare enough to double-check
criblage is uncommon French at frequency #84,672 among 8,609 “C” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \kʁi.blaʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for criblage, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is criblage, spelled C-R-I-B-L-A-G-E.
Definition
- 1Action de passer au crible.
- 2Tri effectué, au sein d’une population, afin d’isoler les individus qui possèdent des caractères particuliers.
- 3Analyse d’un secteur d’activité effectuée selon des critères choisis, en vue de sélectionner certaines entreprises.
- 4Opération visant à connaitre le passé d'une personne par une enquête administrative, principalement pour les métiers relatifs à la sureté d'un État.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how criblage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si les grains ont souffert de l’intempérie des saisons, il faudra recourir au criblage qui produit ordinairement un pour cent de déchet, lequel sera vendu au profit de la République.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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